The Armed Forces have been urged to allow complaints of sexual harassment,
bullying and other forms of abuse to be resolved by an outside authority for
the first time.

An influential committee of MPs are concerned because servicemen and women who
suffered abuse within the military decided against submitting complaints as
they had no faith in the chain of command to deal with it.

Others did not pursue grievances because they felt the Service
Complaints Commissioner, the independent civilian charged with
overseeing how complaints are handled, lacked power to act when things went
wrong.